Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses

by Ruth Barcan

Alternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they are more than a medical and economic sensation. At once spiritual and bodily, medical and recreational, they are an enormously popular cultural practice bound up with the pleasure-seeking drive of consumer culture as well as with spiritual and neo-liberal values.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine critically examines this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845207432
• ISBN13: 9781845207434
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"